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1. (Irish) The sea personified.
4. (printing) Written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it.
12. A solution containing a phosphate buffer.
15. An agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank.
16. Small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers.
17. Leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper.
18. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood.
19. Of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky.
20. 10 grams.
21. Avatar of Vishnu.
23. To gain with effort.
25. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.
27. A heavy precious metallic element.
29. A genus of Mustelidae.
31. Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.
35. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
36. Flat tableland with steep edges.
37. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
38. Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire in Peru and founded Lima (1475-1541).
41. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
43. A secret agent hired by a state to obtain (military) information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors.
44. The square of a body of any size of type.
45. (used as a combining form) Recent or new.
48. The federal agency that insures residential mortgages.
50. A soft gray malleable metallic element that resembles tin but discolors on exposure to air.
51. An item of factual information derived from measurement or research.
53. Electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare.
55. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
56. Half the width of an em.
57. (prefix) Half or partial.
59. Tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers.
61. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
63. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
64. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
66. A slender double-reed instrument.
68. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying the primeval sea.
71. Inquire about.
74. A large fleet.
76. (Old Testament) Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau.
78. A guided missile fired from shipboard against an airborne target.
79. A famous waterfall in Venezuela.
82. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
83. The starting place for each hole on a golf course.
84. A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans.
85. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
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1. A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly.
2. Tropical starchy tuberous root.
3. Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.
4. A drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (Aspirin and Phenacetin and Caffeine).
5. Dreamy in mood or nature.
6. An additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed.
7. King of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him.
8. A failure to maintain a higher state.
9. Inflammation of the ileum.
10. A series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished.
11. Of a light yellowish-brown color n 1.
12. Type genus of the Podicipedidae.
13. Divulge information or secrets.
14. Having wisdom that comes with age and experience.
22. 100 agorot equal 1 shekel.
24. A game in which numbered balls are drawn and random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards.
26. An associate degree in nursing.
28. A state in northwestern North America.
30. Alligator-like reptile of Central and South America having a more heavily armored belly.
32. (British slang) Cafe.
33. Of or relating to a septum.
34. (Greek mythology) A sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait.
39. An ardent male lover.
40. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly living east of Lake Ontario.
42. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
46. An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
47. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349).
49. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
52. Widely distributed lichens usually having a grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus.
54. Lyrebirds and scrubbirds.
58. Brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant.
60. A state in midwestern United States.
62. Battle of World War II (1944).
65. An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp.
67. (Scotland) A slope or hillside.
69. Dignified manner or conduct.
70. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
72. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
73. God of love and erotic desire.
75. 10 grams.
77. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
80. Unknown god.
81. A yellow trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
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